Tag: YA writing
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FINDING THE TIME
Why busy Writers Should Invest In A Low=Cost Time Machine I’ve been thinking about building a time machine, something that would let me jump back and forth on the clock to give me a little extra time to write each day. Unfortunately, since I don’t have any spare plutonium or other means to produce 2.21…
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WHOSE VOICE IS IT?
Every Character Has a Voice, Even If It’s Yours People often ask, who is such and such a character based on, and after a brief and unsuccessful attempt to conjure up a good lie, I admit the truth. My protagonist is almost always based on me. Okay, they then ask, who is the villain based…
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MAKING IT BELIEVABLE
How A Bit Of Trickery Will Make Your Writing Feel Alive In an earlier post I mentioned the term Suspension of Disbelief, which is really just a nice way of saying you are misleading your readers for a good cause. Today, let’s go into this a bit deeper. Come inside, if you dare. Every story,…
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WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW
How To Keep It Real, Or At Least Fake It Well There is an old saying that sooner or later every aspiring writer is going to encounter: Write what you know. But, what exactly does that mean? Does it mean that you are limited to only writing about things that you have direct experience with?…
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